Chinese metropolis Chengdu extends lockdown, again

Home to 21 million people and the capital of southwestern Sichuan province, Chengdu was Late on Wednesday night, The situation appeared particularly severe in Huaguoyuan, a mega apartment complex home to around 400,000 residents, according to state media. Posts circulating on social media show screenshots of residents pleading for food, with some claiming they have been starving for three days.The local government acknowledged the issue and apologized for the lack of supplies in a statement on Wednesday. “Affected by the epidemic, our residents…have faced difficulty in procuring daily necessities. We’re trying our best to solve the issue,” the Nanming district government said.Yang Rui, a Huaguoyuan resident, said she received supplies from the government on Thursday morning, but many others have yet to receive them. “Supplies and personnel are both limited, it’ll have to take some time,” she said.Guiyang is home to Apple’s Chinese data center. Guizhou-Cloud Big Data, which built the data center with Apple, said in a letter to staff published on the company’s official WeChat account: “To ensure the provincial covid prevention system runs smoothly, many of us are staying here in our post. (Staff) has not gone home even once for an entire week, nor did they get a full sleep throughout the week.”CNN has reached out to Apple for comment on the ongoing lockdowns in Chengdu and Guiyang.In Shanghai, guests at the Disney hotel were hit by a two-day lockdown on Wednesday, after authorities found that a former guest at the hotel had been in close contact with a Covid patient. And in Beijing, authorities are scrambling to curb an outbreak centered on university campuses. The city reported 14 local infections for Tuesday and 10 infections for Wednesday.Nationwide, China reported 1,439 new infections on Wednesday, according to the National Health Commission.CNN’s Alex Stambaugh contributed to reporting.